{"id":1237,"date":"2017-08-16T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/?page_id=1237"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T21:11:59","slug":"hettle-pastakia-patel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/womens-entrepreneurship-week-2020\/past-wews\/wew-2015\/speakers\/hettle-pastakia-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hettle Pastakia-Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Director of Women\u2019s Initiatives | JuiceTank<\/h2>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/08\/patelh.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/08\/patelh.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Hettle Pastakia-Patel\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">\n<p>Hettle Pastakia-Patel is\u00a0an entrepreneur that has been involved in many family ventures over the years, including hotels, retail stores, commercial real estate, and\u00a0JuiceTank, NJ&#8217;s largest incubator and co-working space.\u00a0She and her husband have raised significant capital in syndicated partnerships. The sources of capital have included self-funding, friends and family, angel investors, and private equity funding.\u00a0For her initial entrepreneurial venture, she self-funded a dance and wellness center called\u00a0<em>rh factor<\/em>\u00a0Studios which integrated rhythm and health into a modern form of dance therapy. At JuiceTank, she works with entrepreneurs and startup companies to connect them to investors, advisors, and co-founders. For their next venture, which is in the media \/ edu-tech space, Hettle and her husband are actively connecting with potential investors and strategic partners to raise capital.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Hettle serves as the\u00a0Director of Women\u2019s Initiatives at JuiceTank and is the founder of NJ Women\u2019s Network, a dynamic group of approximately 450 successful and aspiring women entrepreneurs, professionals, and executives coming together to foster business relationships, strategic partnerships, and mentorship.<\/p>\n<p>Hettle has a degree in Pharmacy from Rutgers University. She is the proud mother of two children, a son in college and a daughter in high school.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Women\u2019s Initiatives | JuiceTank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1080,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1237\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}